Sitting with an internal LAN and hosting my own services, I got sick and tired of editing my hosts file when I came home from work to reach my mail and web site. Although just editing out the '#' marks and putting them back again is quite a simple job, I knew that there was a simpler method.

Because of the simplicity of my network, I do not have a Domain Control, but just a bunch of virtual server that hosts the external services. So let's configure a DNS service. Boy, was I wrong. Not restricted by any prior DNS knowledge I started Googling on the subject. The posts I read didn't really give me any confidence. I got a bit nervous and started thinking about aborting the entire subject.

Then I came across this tutorial called 'Creating an Internal DNS Server Tutorial (Windows Server 2003)'. This is probably one of the easiest tutorials on the subject on the planet (and beyond). It tells you exactly where to click and, more important, it also told me why. 

It took me only 5 minutes to get it working. Yeah! Life can be simple. I love it.